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I am working with the InDesign Scripts to compare Word or PDF with InDesign Document. Can anyone help me with the following:

1. Compare a client provided PDF with my InDesign Document to compare Line-Breaks, Page-Breaks & Page Composition. Then apply the differences found in the my Indesign Document.

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2. Compare a word document with the InDesign Document to compare Line-Breaks, Page-Breaks & Page Composition. Then apply the differences found in the my Indesign Document.

Is there any InDesign Feature/Script to perform the this task or anyone can refer me any DotNet library/code to accomplish this.

Vikas Sehgal
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Vector document comparison is in general a hard topic, and what you refer to - semantic layout comparison (e.g. detecting line breaks) - is rather extreme. Having worked with vector documents for over 10 years, I can't point any generic tool or library you could use for that.

Commercial publishing software usually applies simpler approach based on rendering pages first and then comparing output images pixel-by-pixel. Going this way, you could start with exporting compared documents as PDFs or raster images and then comparing with something like ImageMagick.

Alternatively, you could look for a way to convert compared documents to vector, layout-preserving format first (like HTML), and find something to compare in that format.

Good luck ! Let me know if you found something :-)

skaven
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